Monday, July 20, 2009

Gringo Warrior is a scenario-based lockpicking game. Set in a hypothetical kidnapping situation, participants are placed in custody of fictional captors who are holding them against their will andextorting money or some other ransom.

Instead of complying with their demands, participants use lockpicks, assorted tools, or evenimprovised items like paperclips and beer cans in order to affect their escape through a varietyof impediments.

Gringo Warrior makes appearances at many hacker cons and security-centric conferencesaround the world. It has been played at DEFCON, ShmooCon, HOPE, NotACon, LayerOne,ToorCon, ShakaCon, TRISC, and elsewhere. Often, it appears in concert with members ofTOOOL hosting a Lockpick Village where people can learn about physical security, try theirhand at picking, and gain insight into how to best protect themselves and their assets from theftor tampering.

This year you will be able to experience Gringo Warrior in the Ekoparty.

The goal was to break out of a simulated Mexican prison in 5 steps:

1. get out of handcuffs2. open 'cell' door3. overpower guard4. break into filing cabinet to retrieve passport5. break out of prison

For each choice except numbers 1 and 3 there was an easy, medium and hard choice.

On 5/17/2008, during the Layer One Security Conference in Pasadena lots of guys there, many who own their own handcuffs and practice all the time, were schooled by a 12 year old girlnamed Ella. Sadly this is not her best run on video, which was 1m42s. This is her slow run, atabout 5m.